Unit3Fly Away Peter(飞走吧,彼得).docVIP

Unit Three Fly Away Peter About the Author David Malouf was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1934. His fathers family came to Australia in the 1880s from Lebanon and his mothers family from London just before World War I. He was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland, where he taught for two years after graduating. He left Australia aged twenty-four and lived in Britain from 1959-68 where he taught in London and Birkenhead. He returned to teach English at the University of Sydney, where he stayed until 1977. He now writes full-time and lives part of the year in Australia and part in southern Tuscany in Italy. Malouf has won numerous prizes for his work including the NSW Premiers Literary Award for An Imaginary Life in 1979, The Age Book of the Year Award in 1982 for Fly Away Peter, the Miles Franklin Award in 1991 and the 1991 Commonwealth Prize for fiction for The Great World. Remembering Babylon won the NSW Premiers Literary Award in 1993, and was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. In June 1996, the novel was awarded the first International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, valued at 100,000 Irish punts. This is currently the worlds largest literary award. Maloufs most recent novel, The Conversations at Curlow Creek, was nominated for the 1996 Age Book of the Year Award and for the 1997 Miles Franklin Award. About the Story I. The title of the book is from a children’s song: Two? ? little? ? funny? ? birds Two? ? little? ? funny? ? birds? ?sitting? ?on? ? the? ???wallOne? ?named? ?Peter The? ???other? ?named? ?Paul Fly? ?away? ? Peter Fly? ? away? ? PaulCome? ? back? ? Peter Come? ???back? ? Paul II. Cultural Context Fly Away Peter was written in 1982. The novel is set in Queensland before World War I. We get an insight into two different cultural landscapes - Australia and Britain. Realistic insights of war are given through the horrors of European trenches. The wild beauty of the Australian landscape is shown to us